Delves Cottage
DELVES COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1148817
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Delves Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DELVES COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1148817
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Delves Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DELVES COTTAGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DELVES COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egton
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 79109 04563
Details
EGTON DELVES NZ 70 SE 7/5 Delves Cottage - II* House. Probably C17, restored and extended 1975-77. Cruck-framed, encased in sandstone rubble, with thatched roof; extension roofed in pantiles. Originally a longhouse, now 3-cell, hearth-passage plan. 1-storey, 2½-bay original front, with lower 1-storey, 1-bay extension at left. C20 board cross-passage door at left end of original front. 2-pane firewindow in chamfered surround to right of door. 6-pane sash and 4-pane casement, both with painted timber lintels, in centre and at right end. Single ridge stack dated 1713 towards left end. Interior. Three pairs of full crucks with tie beams and collars. Studding survives above the tie beam in partition between rooms to right of cross passage. Inglenook fireplace with stone heck, chamfered bressummer and carved witch post survive. Spice cupboard with recessed panelled door on butterfly hinges and drawer beneath, to left of fireplace. Harrison, B and Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, p.237: RCHM, Houses of the North York Moors, pp.68,198,218: figs.102,360,392b.: Hayes, R and Rutter, J, Cruck-framed Buildings in Ryedale and Eskdale, p.39.
Listing NGR: NZ7910904563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327475
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Houses of the North York Moors, (1987), 68,198,218
Hayes, R, Rutter, J, Cruck Framed Buildings in Ryedale and Eskdale, (1966), 39
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 237
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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